SMWS 42.24 The Bee’s Knees (Ledaig 2006 )

I do love a Ledaig, especially with the Winter weather we’re having. This is an SMWS bottling which means it’s probably particularly good, so good in fact that they’ve called it “The Bee’s Knees”.

A fascinating combination of aromas ranging from sweet to salt and smoke kept us all very much engaged and interested; sea salt caramels, a salted chocolate tart using smoked sea salt and churros with salty peanut sugar and bitter chocolate. It tastes exactly how it noses. It was big in every sense; sweet, salty, smoky – simply stunning and best described by the following remarks; ‘dog’s bollocks’ and ‘bee’s knees’! Reluctantly we added a drop of water, however we still enjoyed that very unusual combination we experienced neat but now, admittedly, a little tamer but still tantalizing every nook and cranny of our tongue.

This was a good one indeed. The alcohol was surprisingly mellow in this for such a high ABV, but it was packed with flavours, delicious warming ones, great for Winter. This could easily take the place of a hot mug of Horlicks before bed.